Not exact matches
At a rare press conference following Bo Xilai's dismissal, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao warned that
without further reform China risked plunging into another «tragedy» like the Cultural
Revolution of the 1960s, when an aged Chairman Mao Zedong rallied peasants, workers and students to upend the
social order as a way to vanquish his opponents.
Arendt maintains this counterpoint between the
social and the political throughout On
Revolution, insisting that to end poverty without establishing freedom is no revoluti
Revolution, insisting that to end poverty
without establishing freedom is no
revolutionrevolution at all.
Whereas many of us know individual gays who are
social conservatives, every LGBT organization
without exception backs the sexual
revolution in the culture wars.
A republican tradition
without either The Federalist Papers or The
Social Contract, texts which are clearly central to the two great republican
revolutions of the late eighteenth century in France and North America, would be rather poor though.
Again,
social media didn't cause the Tunisian
Revolution, but they enabled it —
without the ability of a small number of activists to pass along shocking news and imagery from the first wave of protests, they might have fizzled out as so many street demonstrations in so many countries have in the past.
Other excellent books - such as Todd Gitlin's The Sixties, Hugh Pearson's The Shadow of the Panther, and Thomas Powers's Diana: The Making of a Terrorist - tell the story of that era
without sugarcoating the deeds of the radical youth who wanted to impose a
social revolution.
Participants in the
Revolution in Sales research spoke about the dark - side of
social media as: «no place to hide,» «always on and it feels as if there is no choice,» and «connectivity makes us do more work
without getting more work done.»